Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Ben Bernanke

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Marty Heires

Many community bankers have charged that we are going to open branches around the country. That simply isn't true.

Julian Callow

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

Ben Bernanke

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Tony Dolphin

If we think about the fundamentals, global growth is still good, business confidence is generally rising, inflation is close to target in most countries, central bankers are not talking aggressively.

Diana Yates

M&A is not going to be enough to carry the day for investment bankers as far as earnings go.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Marvin Emerson

We knew they were solid. That team can play, and we knew that. We had a little bit of an off night, but they gave us all we wanted.

Kerry Janquart

We knew they were sagging off us a bit, so we knew if we could keep them honest a bit from the outside, it would open up the inside.

E. Hicks

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

Steve Edmiston

We knew they were going to bring pressure. Early on it took a little bit of adjustment, but once we made that we were fine.

Kevin O'Leary

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

Mark Mugiishi

We lacked the consistent play throughout the game to win. We were too streaky. It's hard to win like that. You have to be able to sustain an effort a little bit better.

Brendan Morrison

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

Mark Freeman

We know we're going to see eight or nine guys in the box, so we've got to throw it a bit to help our running game,

Charlie Daniels

It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Jeremy Mayfield

We know how to get into the Chase. It's a whole different deal after you've gotten in to win the championship in the last 10 races than it is in the first 26. We've got some work to do, and we realize that.

Janet Reno

very difficult to deal with . . . She was not as objective as she could be in presenting her positions. If she'd been more objective, she'd have been more effective.

Deb Hauser

Verona wanted to stay and the league wanted Verona to stay. That should put to rest any talk about it moving into the Big Eight Conference. But I don't want to have to deal with this for at least another five years.

Mark Turner

Ultimately, we'd like to see a deal done,

Jill Krutick

Ultimately the deal could get resurrected after the AOL-Time Warner deal is done.

Alan Autry

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Jonathan Steinmetz

We are pleased to see results improve, but our enthusiasm is tempered by several factors.

David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

David Hume

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Brad Bird

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Alan Sugar

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Jarod Ingersoll

When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.

Wang Yuanhong

Therefore, the previous mechanism can hardly mirror the true situation.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Michael Jackson

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Rep. Lawlor

Today is a milestone, but it's hardly the end of the story. One way or another we're going to be living the rowland scandal for the foreseeable future.

Tim Ross

He was hardly ever in trouble. The walk was in the first inning.

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Greg Willis

He did not hardly play any offensive line last year.

David Morse

He didn't hardly ever wear a hat around here,

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Bernard Williams

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

David Hume

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Dreman

Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Daron Rahlves

I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Emmanuel Soupre

We'll be very vigilant in terms of earnings.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.